One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Language Analysis
Cuckoo 's Nest: 2013 Edition
If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ? In Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest, Nurse Ratched uses abusive procedures on the patients to instill complete control over them and all aspects of their lives. Through her dictatorial rule, Nurse Ratched dehumanizes the patients in a way that would be undeniably prosecutable in present day. However, Kesey wrote this novel in the 1960s. During this time period, people deemed “insane” were seen as sub-human by society. Their maltreatment was not emphasized because of the image society had maintained of the people on the ward and the general public 's ignorance as to how the patients were getting treated. Today, equality throughout all of humanity is particularly accentuated. If people today were lobotomized or treated with electroshock therapy …show more content…
The nurses in the book do not even tell the patients what the medication is or what it was for, they would only say, “Its just medication… [its] good for you,” and sometimes an outstanding patient will rebutter, “But I mean what kind of medication. Christ, I can see that they 're pills-” (Kesey 22). If the book were written in present day, this issue would defiantly differ because hospital patients today must sign consent forms before any procedures could be performed or any medication could be given. The medication in the novel was supposed to make the patients calmer and more passive so the Big Nurse could further spread her power. Many medical elements of the book such as lobotomy, electroshock therapy, and medication distribution would be greatly changed if the book were written in present day because of current regulatory laws and society 's view on these harmful ways of
If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ? In Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest, Nurse Ratched uses abusive procedures on the patients to instill complete control over them and all aspects of their lives. Through her dictatorial rule, Nurse Ratched dehumanizes the patients in a way that would be undeniably prosecutable in present day. However, Kesey wrote this novel in the 1960s. During this time period, people deemed “insane” were seen as sub-human by society. Their maltreatment was not emphasized because of the image society had maintained of the people on the ward and the general public 's ignorance as to how the patients were getting treated. Today, equality throughout all of humanity is particularly accentuated. If people today were lobotomized or treated with electroshock therapy …show more content…
The nurses in the book do not even tell the patients what the medication is or what it was for, they would only say, “Its just medication… [its] good for you,” and sometimes an outstanding patient will rebutter, “But I mean what kind of medication. Christ, I can see that they 're pills-” (Kesey 22). If the book were written in present day, this issue would defiantly differ because hospital patients today must sign consent forms before any procedures could be performed or any medication could be given. The medication in the novel was supposed to make the patients calmer and more passive so the Big Nurse could further spread her power. Many medical elements of the book such as lobotomy, electroshock therapy, and medication distribution would be greatly changed if the book were written in present day because of current regulatory laws and society 's view on these harmful ways of